Full of diverse rhythms meters harmonies text-painting and lots of humor the journey of Sweet Betsy and Long Ike from Pike County to California has never sounded so fun! This delightful new take on the popular American folk song from the Gold Rush era will become a favorite for you and your singers and will certainly entertain your audiences.

Jennifer and Michael Watts are a husband-and-wife team active in the music industry in Southern California. Jennifer holds a BA in Music Theory degree from California State University ? Chico and maintains a full pianostudio. A classically trained jazz pianist her teachers have included Terry Trotter and Julien Musafia. Mike is a multi-talented studio musician working mainly in the motion picture and television industries. He has been thefeatured pianist on several major motion pictures plays synthesizers and accordion and also works as an arranger/composer and orchestrator. Some of the more recent films he has been involved with include Tangled Toy Story3 and The Princess and the Frog. Blues Jazz Rock and Rags is comprised of original compositions Jennifer uses in her studio to keep piano students motivated. After being unsuccessful in finding just the rightmusic for individual students Jennifer asked Mike to partner with her in composing their own material. A keen understanding of contemporary styles combined with valuable teaching experience results in a collaborative effortthat is fun motivating and educational!This follow up to Book 1 (HL00296849) features a dozen more original solos at the Intermediate level: Charley B's Disco ? Chasin' Monsters ? The Doctor Is In ? FancyBlues ? Jammin' Away ? Klumzy Kangaroo ? Nobody Doesn't Like Jerry Lee ? Pretty Slick ? Remember When ? Surf's Up! ? Swingin' Rag ? Where'd They Go.

Par CORNICK MIKE. Level 2 of Mike Cornick's Play the Piano! moves seamlessly on from Level 1 ensuring continuous musical and technical progress for the adult or older teenager. With the raised technical levels the choice of musical genres is even more enriched with arrangements of traditional folk music and music by, for example, J. S. Bach, W. A. Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Mike Cornick, Elton John and more. The result is a feast of beautiful music and the continued guidance from Mike Cornick will help the player develop the technical skills and confidence to interact with the rewarding musical experiences provided by the CDs. Again, at each stage, more pieces may be downloaded FOR FREE from the Universal Edition website. PLAY THE PIANO! - Step-by-step learning in playing and reading, starting from absolute scratch, presented in clearly structured stages - Also suitable for the 'returning beginner' - Performance pieces in a range of styles from classical and folk through to jazz - Helpful and stimulating CDs with aural development exercises and recordings of the pieces, many with 'play-along' tracks - Warm-up exercises - Even more performance pieces which, together with more supporting material for each stage, are available as FREE DOWNLOADS from the Universal Edition website. / Pédagogie / Etude / Piano

Par CORNICK MIKE. Mike Cornick's latest addition to this popular series for numerous players at one piano is, this time, for 5 left hands. True to the spirit of the series these pieces are entertaining for the audience and are fun to perform. Whilst enjoying themselves, players will be encouraged to listen and coordinate with each other. A second copy of the score is included for easy reading in performance and free downloads of the single parts (2-5) are available to make practising at home possible. Ideal for musical get-togethers including concerts. These pieces will be enjoyed by all. • Unusual, entertaining and fun, these pieces are ideal for school concerts • Previous editions in the series have had great reviews and have been enthusiastically received by performers and audiences • Sight-reading these pieces can be fun! • For studying, free downloads of the single parts (2-5) available at www.universaledition.com/ Répertoire / Piano 5 mains

Par REINHARDT DJANGO. Transcribed and edited by Mike Peters. Includes 70 Reinhardt classics for classical guitar. Each song lists its date of recording and other important information relating to the song and recording session./ Recueil / Guitare

Dans ce DVD, Mike Clark explique et fait des démonstrations de blues, de funk et des racines du jazz avec son approche unique. Point par point, Clark emmène les spectateurs à travers l'évolution du funk, du shuffle et du swing, en montrant avec des illustrations concises comment il a formé son modèle de signature de ' Oakland ghost-note ' dans les grooves pionniers qu'il a joués avec Herbie Hancock and les Headhunters.Les interprétations live de la partie bonus du DVD avec son trio montrent la gamme, la puissance et la passion qui ont transformé Mike Clark en l'un des batteurs les plus demandés dans la musique contemporaine ! / Batterie Et Percussions

Comme Mike Dowling prouve, vous ne devez sauvegarde musiciens à jouer des airs de grand tournant à la guitare. Avec cette leçon fascinante, vous obtenez l'ensemble - rythmique compilation, des progressions de mobiliers chord, riffs mélodiques, intros, outros, improvisations et autres parures de guitare pour vous permettre de jouer les chansons et les instrus depuis le début de l'ère jazz sur solo de guitare. Mike est un joueur précis et instructeur qui se décompose chaque technique complète en détail. Son amour pour la musique swing est évidente dans chaque note, comme il vous montre comment jouer des accords de guitare richement construits à quatre chansons jazz irrésistibles : une corde/mélodie instrumentale pour Sweet Sue - nouveauté de big band de Louis Jordan tune cinq gars nommé Moe - le saut infectieux tune I Hope Gabriel aime ma musique - et le très populaire classique de pied-tapping, Sweet Brown de Géorgie. / Guitare / Dvd

35 minutes avec Mike Dowling pour progresser. En anglais. / Guitare / niveau : Débutant/Intermédiaire / Dvd

2 DVD dans lesquels Mike Seeger, l'un des artistes de musique américaine traditionnelle les plus connus, présente une large variété de techniques de guitare qui ont été jouées dans le Sud de 1850 à 1930. Il présente 25 chansons et accompagnements: Old Chisholm Trail, Fishing Blues, John Henry, Spanish Fandango, guitar Rag et encore bien d'autres. / Guitare

Par BREWER MIKE. This exciting collection presents choirs with a terrific opportunity to experience the excitement and energy of African music! Building on the success of Hamba Lulu, this volume taps into a rich seam of African culture and includes the festive song Banuwa, alongside the Zulu 'bird' song Izintakana and a new arrangement of the South African wedding song 'Babevuya', coupled with the infectious 'Walamba'. / Niveau : Elémentaire / Recueil / SATB

Hawaii gave the world the Ukulele - a craze that eventually spread from the West Coast of the USA all over the world.This selection of songs arranged for the heroic little four-stringed instrument spans authentic Hawaiian compositions like Aloha Oe and Hi'ilawe through cheerful pastiches like Everybody Does It In Hawaii and Sweet Leilani to Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's inspired Hawaiian treatments of Over The Rainbow and What A Wonderful World, proving that any style of song sounds good played on a Uke. / Ukulélé